From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX
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Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX
Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing
- [Instructor] A good visual effects shot doesn't match the way the world looks to your naked eye, but rather how it is photographed by a camera. Here's a sequence that emphasizes the emotional reality of this climactic scene at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. This is not how it would look to your naked eye but shot with a camera, it is powerful both for what it allows us to see and also for what it leaves out. By looking at the camera itself, and this applies to any camera body and lens, including this older Canon 7D with a Tamron 24-70 millimeter zoom, there are specific things we can identify that the camera sees and records and your eyes and brain do not. The camera has three distinct parts, each of which contributes specific cinematic qualities to an image: the back, also known as the camera body or sensor, the lens, which may be a prime with a fixed length or a variable zoom like the one that you see here, and the opening, which helps establish the field of…
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Essential 1: Know how to match5m 24s
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Essential 2: An overview of moving selections7m 22s
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Prevent alpha channel fringing2m 4s
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Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing4m 26s
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Essential 4: An overview of what makes an image cinematic3m 35s
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Push adjustments hard for drama and intensity6m 23s
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Essential 5: An overview of color correction1m 56s
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Use Mask Tracker for color correction4m 10s
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Essential 6: Know how to comp fire6m 37s
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Add heat ripple and glow8m 54s
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Create convincing screen transparency3m 31s
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Essential 7: Develop a "good eye" to go further1m 51s
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